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At some point hitherto, John J. Cruz hath spake thusly:
> I've installed Red Hat Linux ver 7.2 and I elected to to use ext3
> for the file system type.

An excellent choice.  No more fsck!

> Now I get the following error message when mounting the hard drive
> with windows 95:

> Drive Mount Command failed. 
> "Mount /mnt/win95 2>&1" reported; 
> mount fs type not supported by kernel 

Excellent!

> Prior to this installation I used Red Hat 6.2 and was using fs type ext2
> and was able to mount the win95 drive. 
> 
> Is there a solution" 

Yes!  And because I'm in a good mood, I'll even tell you what it is.
Enable msdos and vfat filesystem support in your kernel, if it isn't.
If you don't know how to compile a kernel, see the Kernel-HOWTO at
http://www.linuxdoc.org/ (in the "Howtos" section).  Then, make sure
you have an entry in your /etc/fstab for the filesystem, which (based
on your description above, and assuming the device file associated
with your windows partition is /dev/hda1) should prolly look like this:

  /dev/hda1	    /mnt/win95		  vfat	 defaults    0 0

If your windows partition isn't /dev/hda1, make sure you use the right
thing.

If you don't know what THAT is, try (as root) this:

  # fdisk -l /dev/hda

You should get a list of the partitions on your first IDE drive, which
looks similar to this:


  Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 784 cylinders
  Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
  
     Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
  /dev/hda1   *         1        83    666666    b  Win95 FAT32
  /dev/hda2            84       784   5630782+   5  Extended
  /dev/hda5            84       784   5630751    b  Win95 FAT32

It's onna them pesky "Win95 FAT32" partitions, I do declare.  If you
only had one, then pick that one!  Otherwise, you're on your own,
since I know nothing about your system.

Have a nice day!

[Oh, and for those who've seen the above partition table and think
I've sold out, my linux partitions are on /dev/sda, and I rarely ever
use the win95 partitions for much more than scratch space.]

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